iPhone 5 pre-orders start September 14, available on September 21

Apple has just announced that it will be taking pre-orders for the iPhone 5 starting Friday September 14. It will be available to buy in-store on Friday September 21.

Countries included in the September 21st release are the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. A second phase release will happen on September 28, just one week later and over a 100 countries by December. We'll give you an updated listing of countries as soon as they officially become available.

Yay. Will pre-order the nanosecond the Apple Store's iPhone "Buy Now" button works. And if that takes enormously long (like it did in 2010 for the iPhone 4) we'll try pre-ordering via the App Store app.

I definitely want to preorder on Friday but only if the shipment is set to get to me on the 21st. I really do not want to stand in line next Friday but will if the preorders will only "ship" on the 21st.